Successes of United Nations (bonus)

Despite all its failures, inconsistencies and difficulties, check the below list of successes of the UN:

The first and foremost is that it has prevented the occurrence of any further world wars. Instrumental in the maintenance of international balance of power.

It played a significant role in disarming the world and making it nuclear free (well, almost). Various treaty negotiations like ‘Partial Test Ban Treaty’ and ‘Nuclear non-proliferation treaty’ have been signed under UN.

Demise of colonialism and imperialism on one hand and apartheid on the other had UN sanctions behind them.

The UN acted as vanguard for the protection of human rights of the people of the world, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948.

UN agencies and affiliates such as WHO, UNICEF, and UNESCO have keenly participated in the transformation of the international social sector.

Limited but moderately successful peace-brokering arrangements and peace-keeping operations in a number of conflict zones (since 1945, the UN has been credited with negotiating 172 peaceful settlements that have ended regional conflicts).

The world body was also instrumental in institutionalization of international laws and world legal framework.

Passage of various conventions and declarations on child, women, climate, etc, highlights the extra-political affairs of the otherwise political world body.

UN interventions in a number of peace missions in Africa have done reasonably well to control the situation.